getting better

shell | 27 | queer | they/them

[ratsquinks]

just one moment let me have a quick little sippy before we continue fighting

[vedurnan]

human and bug relations will change by the end of the century

[thyrell]

joe biden should do another stimulus check where the ira sends me a lox bagel. with cream cheese please

[thyrell]

irs.

[efoxgirl]

[seat-safety-switch]

Have any of your kids become machinists lately? The signs can be subtle, but they're there. Every day, thousands of children become obsessed with precisely fabricating intricate mechanical parts. Only some of them become productive members of society, like hot rod builders or railway clock engineers. Virtually all of them are lost to constructing scale-model steam engines. Concerned parents are watching for the following signs.

Police know that the first sign of affiliation into a new gang is a change in the subject's vocabulary. New words. Unfamiliar names. Did little Johnny never mention the words "locating datum" before he suddenly blurted it out by accident one night at dinner? It may be time to have a conversation with his teacher, to find out more about who he spends his time with at school. If you can get to it early enough, you can nip it in the bud.

In a similar vein, it's important to figure out where all their money is going. Kids who get hooked on the machinist lifestyle will often buy ridiculous things in order to "prove" their affiliation with the gang. One mother of two in Rhode Island came home to find a bunch of strange metallic cylinders on her doorstep, shipped overnight from FedEx to her youngest child. Round stock. She thought it was "just a phase." Her child is doing time in a federal penitentiary, after getting all fucked up on DYKEM markers and stabbing an engineer for submitting an insufficiently dimensioned drawing.

Last, an obsession with precision is often your last chance to have a talk with a wayward child. Are things in your house suddenly becoming rigidly aligned to an invisible grid system? Are you noticing things becoming burnished or otherwise polished, that weren't before? A trusted adult's timely intervention when your kid is micrometering a piece of sheet metal found in the alley may be all that is saving your kid from a lifetime of obsessing over thousandths.

With your vigilance and hard work, we can keep children from growing up to become machinists. Nobody's dream for their child should involve "estate sale full of hundreds of thousands of useless brackets."

[patrickbatemanamericanpsycho]

[milquetoaast]

source

[ros-sauce]

[sometiktoksarevalid]

[crowboy-bebop]

oh my fucking god

[fishdetective]

Waiting in limbo while

foul Mitch McConnell he

lies in a hospital

gone to his grave.

Bloggers on tumblr are

characteristically

eagerly waiting to

let the crabs rave.

[tsalala]

Mama and the eye specialists.

Taken in Kicheche Valley Camp, Kenya Photographed by Paul Goldstein

[housegoblin]

lifes so hard

[felinefractious]

are you aware of any issues comign from cats being polydactyl? i imagine having one or two extra toes isn’t too bad but some of them with way more make me think it looks uncomfortable. no specific reason i’m asking i am simply curious to see what you have to say!

I’m not a fan of intentionally breeding for polydactyly - especially when going for as many toes as possible. While it may not have the same innate health issues as other novel traits it isn’t without risk.

Ingrown nails are a significant risk with polydactyl cats as they often aren’t able to scratch with (some of) the extra digits to wear them down and peel off the outer shell, the atypical placement can also make them hard to see and easy to miss during routine nail clips if you don’t know to look for them or aren’t keeping count.

Sometimes the extra digits aren’t fully attached, instead fixed to the limb only by flesh, making them susceptible to being caught and torn off during playtime or fighting.

You can also run into issues where the extra digits further - or even the normally placed digits - develop with other abnormalities, because where there’s one it isn’t uncommon for their to be more, so sometimes we’ll see polydactyl cats that also have syndactyly or a short toe or they can’t extend/retract the nail on a toe, etc.

Cats that are naturally polydactyl are adorable and it’s fine to love them and even want to adopt or find one, it’s a trait that does occur semi-regularly in feral/stray populations and these cats can (and typically do) live full and normal lives! You just have to be a little more on top of nail clipping.

I just don’t think it’s a trait we should actively be seeking to reproduce.

[natalieironside]

Mitch McConnell has been sent to a nice farm out in the country where there's lots of open space to run around and lots of other senators for him to play with

[squimp]

happy Tuvok Tuesday, lads

[startrekdescribed]

[Image description: an edit of Tuvok from Star Trek: Voyager. He has flames and lightning all around him, one of the flames forming a growling tiger on his shoulder. He's been edited to be wearing black sunglasses as he looks at the viewer. Text above and below in a yellow to blue gradient says, "It is indeed Tuvok Tuesday." /end image description]

[distractionsfromthefood]

[organisminparadise]

Wyd after drinking the Linux slurpee